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of $40 in first class rates to points beyond
the Missouri river.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-At a meeting of
the managers of the Central Traffic Asso-
citation lines to-day it was agreed to ad-
vance all freight rates to the Atlantic sea-
board 10 per cent, to go into effect
Jan. 2.
Discussing the Admission of Utah.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-The resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Call yesterday to print
in the Congressional Record the memoir
ial of the constitutional convention of
Utah, was called up by that gentleman,
who asked that it be adopted. Edmunds
preferred that the resolution be referred
to the committee on territories. Call
argued that it was due to a community of
200,0 600 people to have their views fairly
presented. He understood that less than
3 per cent of these people were guilty of
practices on the assumption of which the
objection of the senator from Vermont
was based. He would now read the
memorial to insure its publication in the
Record, and to show hat there was moth
ing Objectionable in it. He thereupon read
the memorial, and added that the senator
from Vermont knew that there was moth
ing in it d"isrespecttul to congress, and
there was no reason of right or Justice
why the senate should refuse her petition
of 200, 900 American citizens.
Edmunds thanked the senator from
Florida for his gratifying illusions to him.
He certainly had not questioned the sin
cerity of the senator from Florida for he
(CalD had stood behind this polygamist
hierarchy every time that he had and in
terest to advance or any wholesome legis-
lation to resist. He had done SO with a
great deal of ability and considerable
zeal. He could give the senator the
praise of being absolutely sincere in
standing by this body OF persons through
thick and thin, and expected hat the
senator would continue to do SO, and if
in time Utah should become a state, and
the United states constitution should be
changed so that one person might be SEN
senator from Florida would be the first
senator whom the Mormon hierarchy
would select. He (Edmunds) could pro-
duce and ask to have printed in the
Record other statements showing the utter
hypocrascy and CANNON of the perfor-
nance and that 1t was a mere trick to get
out from under the hands of congress and
from under the laws of the United States.
Everybody understood that, and he
(Edmunds) did not propose to vote for
spending money in order to print in the
Record that sort of thing.
Call said the senator from Vermont was
not more sincere than correct in his state
ment that he (CalD had stood behind the
Mormon hierarchy. He had stood behind
human rights when hat senator with ex-
quisite cruelty sought to punish innocent
women and children in Utah, by legisla-
ton which he (Call regarded as u~nconsti-
t%utiOnal, unteeling and inhuman. The
senator had never heard him advocate
corruption, and that senator had never
heard him advocate corrupt judicial tribu-
mails or hacked %iuries, or prostitution of
the courts of Justice. lie (CalD had
never expressed an opinion as to how he
should vote on the admission of Utah.
That was a question for future considera-
ton. He understood by the statements
of reliable citizens, Republicans and
Democrats, that not more than 5 per cent
of the population of Utah favored polyg-
amy, and that the young people of the
territory were unanimously opposed it, to
and submitted cOnscientlously to the legis-
latIon Of congress. The objections of the
senator from Vermont were vain and
idle, and were unworthy of that senator.
Stewart was opposed to printing the
memorial in the Record, as it might raise
false hopes in Utah as being an express
sion of opinion that its admission as a
state was possible at present. He feared
very much that Utah was not in a condi-
ton to become a state. She was gov
erned by a close corporation hierarchy.
He did not believe there was such a thing
as freedom in Utah. Free schools, as I'M
derstood elsewhere, did not exist the re.
Everything was subservient TO a political
organization known as the Norman
church. 1t was impossible for United
States citizens to live in any part of Utah
outside of towns where there was no mill